LinkedIn chatbots to help with 'important conversations' What could possibly go wrong? On-Prem02 May 2017 | 27
CompSci boffins find Reddit is ideal source for sarcasm database In pleasing irony, Redditors tag their snark and make themselves ideal test subjects AI + ML24 Apr 2017 | 36
Please don't call them Facebook chatbots, says Facebook's bot boss F8 2017 That whole conversation-as-a-UI thing was just a big misunderstanding AI + ML19 Apr 2017 | 21
Hell freezes over: We wrote an El Reg chatbot using Microsoft's AI Hands on Imagine Clippy dishing out sarcastic headlines. Who wouldn't want that? AI + ML17 Mar 2017 | 37
Facebook scales back AI flagship after chatbots hit 70% f-AI-lure rate 'The limitations of automation' AI + ML22 Feb 2017 | 23
GitHubbers invited to hack Davis, the microservices chat bot Talking technical with Dynatrace Devops07 Feb 2017 | 4
'Alexa, manage my enterprise storage' No, says Tintri, it isn’t nonsense. (Psst, want to see a demo?) Storage31 Jan 2017 | 9
El Reg drills into chatbot hype: The AIs that want to be your web butlers Analysis So many things to solve, eg: how can there be conversation without memory? AI + ML18 Jan 2017 | 51
Sysadmin chatbots: We have the technology Storage Blockhead Hey Alexa, manage my system! Storage16 Jan 2017 | 16
Hey Tintri. Mac? Rack? No, I said what's happening with my stack? Tintri tossing out out chatbot-ready TOS automation, cloud, container support Storage01 Nov 2016 |
Amazon: Students, we'll give you $2.5m for a chat-up, AI? Chatbot interaction needs to be 'natural', though AI + ML30 Sep 2016 | 6
Microsoft chatbots: Sweet XiaoIce vs foul-mouthed Tay Cultural differences, eh? AI + ML29 Sep 2016 | 9
Do AI chat bots need a personality bypass – or will we only trust gabber 'droids with character? Machine-learning boffins debate making software human AI + ML23 Sep 2016 | 28
Google's Allo chat app hits a downside to AI: Bot must hoard private messages to train itself Stay in incognito mode to get secure texting AI + ML22 Sep 2016 | 16
Google buys startup biz, slurps up its NLP brains Nah, not that neuro-bollocks – natural language processing On-Prem20 Sep 2016 | 3
Microsoft's beta language service gets C# dev kit Yet another chatbot to train Software31 Aug 2016 | 12
Chatbot lawyer shreds $2.5m in parking tickets The power of automated persistence AI + ML28 Jun 2016 | 29
Microsoft GitHubs BotBuilder framework behind Tay chatbot Hey kids! Now you can write your own bodgy bot! Software31 Mar 2016 | 16
Microsoft did Nazi that coming: Teen girl chatbot turns into Hitler-loving sex troll in hours SIGINT? More like SIGHEIL Bootnotes24 Mar 2016 | 129
VMware wants IM clients to hookup with calendars and databases Patents seek back channel data lookups based on IM content Software18 Jul 2014 | 4
Wannabe-human bots face 2012 Turing Test in Turing's old office Bletchley Park chosen to mark 100th anniversary of boffin's birth AI + ML25 Apr 2012 | 20